MDMD(2): Notes and Questions

[Matthew P Wiener]

>     73.21  `Nervus Probandi' literally, a nerve to be prodded -
>     Pynchon's ham C18th for `sore point', perhaps?

[Dinn's list omitted the page.line reference]

I looked up Kant's usage in the original.  The phrase was used by him
in the 1781 (first) edition of KRITIK DER REINEN VERNUNFT, p352.  This
whole section disappeared in the second edition.

	Der so genante *neruus probandi* dieses Arguments
	liegt in dem Satze: ....
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)